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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1904.
KANSASjiEWS.
New Oil Refinery at Kansas City
Will Be Inadequate.
Unable to Take Care of Immense
Output of New Fields.
PIPE LINE NECESSARY.
Unlikely That Oil Will Be Piped
to Atlantic Coast.
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Incorporated In Illinois.
In the Incorporation at Springfield,
III., of the Prairie Oil and Gas company
Is said to He confirmation of the stories
Uiat have recently been circulated to
the effect that the Standard Oil com
pany was planning an immense pipe
line connecting the new oil fields of
Kansas and Indian Territory with the
great refineries at Whiting, Ind.
The Prairie Oil and Gas company is
the pipe line company of the Standard
CI; in Kansas. Its legal headquarters
re at Neodesha, but its main operating
lcado.t:arters are at Independence. The
company has a capital stock of $3,500,000
In Kansas, and has recently incorpora
ted under the Illinois laws, with a capi
tal in Illinois of $1,900,000.
The new pipe line will run from Kan
sas City to Whiting, Ind., and the route
Is said to have been already selected.
2t will ccst several million dollars, t'lt
probably nowhere near $10,000,000, as 1 us
been stated in the dispatches. W i
has elready been begun in Kansas.
The new pipe line is to handl" . e
production of the Kansas fields wit the
greatest efficiency and economy. A lew
refinery is being built by the Standard
OU company in Kansas City, but it will
be unable to take care of the immense
output of the new fields. Owing to the
distributing facilities at Whiting and
the smaller freight charges on finished
products from there it is more profitable
to refine the oil there than at Kansas
City.
The talk of piping the Kansas oil
through to the great refineries at Bay
onne, N. J., appears to be mistaken.
The Standard Oil company has a pipe
ltrt. frctm the Ohin oil fipltln tn Wbitintr.
and another from the same fields to the J
eastern seaboard. It is unlikely that
these two lines will be joined to trans
port Kansas oil to the seacoast, since
it would be cheaper to refine the crude
oil at Whiting and ship the products.
SMITH CEXTEH BUILDIXG BOOM.
During Past Year Many Substantial
Buildings Were Erected.
Smith Center, Kas., Dec. 26. This
town has been having an old-fashioned
building activity all the year; in fact
has been enjoying a larger revival of
building than that enjoyed the year
the Rock Island was built through
Smith county. Xor has there been any
overproduction in this revival. Dozens
of new residence houses have been
completed, many of them beautiful in
architecture and modern in every re
spect. Several business buildings have
been erected, and others will be built
this winter and next spring. And yet
there is a shortage of gfood business
houses as well as residences.
Among the improvements now un
der way in Smith Center is the erec
tion of two beautiful churches the
Methodist, to cost about $11,000. and
the Congregational, $6,500. The for
mer is frame with brick veneering, and
the latter of stone. Both of them will
be heated with furnaces. The Con
trregationalists expect to complete and
dedicate their church about March 15,
while the Methodists expect to have
theirs in shape for dedication about
April 15. the time of the holding of
the annual conference, which meets In
(Smith Center at that time.
Smith county will send a large dele
gation of her school teachers to To
peka on the occasion of the annual
meeting of the State Teachers' asso
ciation this week. Twenty or more of
the teachers have signified their inten
tion of being there.
SMITH COUNTY FAIR.
Officers Elected lor 1903 Big Surplus
for Premiums.
Smith Center, Dec. 26. The Smith
county fair association have elected
officers for 1905 as follows: President.
E. H. Burrow; vice president, J. D.
Mollison; secretary. E. S. Rice; treas
urer, Henry Williams. The annual
business meeting found the affairs of
the association in so good shape, that
the management will expend about
$1,500 in the erection of a large stock
pavilion. The association has about
sixty acres of ground, fenced. Im
provements already made aggregate
about $5,000. The grounds are su
perior to any fair grounds In this part
of Kansas. The new officers are rep
resentative citizens and business men,
who are already at work preparing for
a larger exhibition for 1905 than was
the successful one held this fall.
W ill Put Down Wells at Perry.
Perry, Kas., Dec. 2 6. At a meeting
of citizens Saturday afternoon definite
plans were made and subscriptions are
being made to organize a company
to put down several oil.and gas wells.
Perry is in the southern part of Jef
ferson county and is 16 miles east of
Topeka and almost due north of Iola
and Erie. According to the Haworth
theory the oil and gas belt runs north
from these fields and takes In this
community, although it leaves Topeka
a short distance to the west. This
theory seems to be brought out by the
fact that the Topeka wells at Shorey
have proved a failure, while Bonner
Springs on the east has brought in a
number of good wells. ,
In the Paola Oil Field.
J. M. Pringle Fhot his Xo. 3 well on
the Hobart tract, just north of Paola,
Saturday.
A well was shot on the Wilgus land
on Sunday, but it contained only a
small quantity of oil. On this tract,
located just west of Paola, is a well
which flowed 280 barrels in 18 hours.
Several tests have been made of the
oil In this field. Following is the
analysis: Gasoline, 16.3; kerosene,
46.6; lubricant, 29.7: volatile, 7.4; spe
cific gravity, 34 degrees Baume.
Coffej-ville Oil Xotes.
The Kansas Petroleum company drilled
In No. 3 well on the Whitesides land Sat
urday afternoon and got a good producer.
The company wi!l Piioot the well some
time next week. The sand was found at
the 600-foot depth. The company now has
three boo 1 wells on tiils land and has -i
big bunch of good ones on the Dilley
land. The power is in and working in
pood shape, ami the gravity of the com
pany's oil tests well. Davis & Yost got a
splendid oil well on the Iuton farm,
south of Tyro. Friday. They were ex
pecting a gas well. Their surprise may
be imagined when they drilled into a fine
rich oil sand at 700 feet. The drill will be
rtarted again in the same neighborhood.
Most of the oil rigs that are sU9 running
in this district closed down Saturday and
will resume Tuesday. Many drillers and
managers went out of town for the holi
days. KXXGMAX KTT.T.T-rt IX MEXICO.
Former Salina, Kan., Man Believed to
Have Been Murdered.
Salina, Kan., Dec. 26. Frank King
man has received a telegram from
Mexico stating that his brother, W. F.
Kingman, had been killed In NacozarL
Sonora, Mexico, December 21. King
man left here several years ago and
went to Old Mexico, where he was
employed by a copper company at La
Aurora as an electrical engineer.
Kingman was in a mine one day
with a Mexican and the latter got
killed. The company Kingman worked
for believed Kingman's story that the
Mexican was killed accidentally, but
the Mexicans thought he had killed
their countryman and they tried to kill
him. Kingman was smuggled out of the
country under the coal in an engine
tender. He then disappeared, and his
relatives here thought he had been
killed until they received this in
formation. The message did not state
the manner of his death and it is
feared that he has been murdered.
The body will be buried In Mexico.
Kingman was well known here.
IOIiA DEAIi IS A GO.
City Is to Purchase Gas Plant and
Hates Will Remain Unchanged.
lola, Kan., Dec. 26. The Iola Gas
company and the city of Iola - have
about concluded their deal in which
Iola is to follow the precedent set by
Chanute and go in the municipal own
ership business. The Register says of
the deal.
There Is some difference of opinion
as to the price to be charged for lights
but it Is probable some concessions
will be made on both sides, and the
result probably will be a price for
lights a little lower than the Chanute
schedule and a little higher than the
present rate in Iola. The other feat
ures of the rate schedule will be the
same as at Chanute.
Iola last week was supplied with
gas from the Lanyon wells but is now
connected up with the wells in the
new field north of that town and the
smelter city is warm once more.
Sixth District Notes.
Major Conwav. of the Morton Cham
pion, Is bound to bring his delinquents
to time after January 1, next. He says:
"Our subscription list will be cut down
to those who pay, and those who owe
us will be sued."
J. H. Toung, of Oberlin, for many
years the court stenographer for Judge
A. C. T. Geiger, of the Seventeenth dis
trict, has resigned. Miss Cora M. Shir-i
ley, of Atwood, succeeds Mr. Young.
-art iagg, or .rurwin, raised over 15.
000 bushels of corn on 300 acres. He has
this much cribbed which he is going to
hold until he Is assured of another crop.
The Staggs are among the largest and
most successful farmers of Phillips
county.
The Natoraa State bank will be re
organized the first of the year, and the
capital stock will be increased to $10,
000. There are rumors to the effect that
the Missouri Pacific will change time
again on the Central Branch division.
The hotels of Stockton seem to be doing
the principal part of the kicking, be
cause on the old time they got from
$1.50 to $2.00 out of their patrons, where
they now only get 50 cents.
The sugar beet crop in Cheyenne
county was so large this year that her
people believe capital can come in and
erect a sugar industry which will bring
in good paying results. Six men in
that county put out 82 acres which
yielded 1.0S8 tons. Josiah Crosby, ex
member of the legislature from that
county, had out nine acres, and yielded
112 tons; J. L. Finley harvested fifteen
acres and received 191 tons; Mark
Weidenheimer had five acres and a yield
of 81 tons; Deroy Danielson had 14acres
and gathered 180 tons; Jacob Uplinger
had 32 acres and 445 tons, and Geo. S.
Weidenheimer had seven acres and 79
tons.
Kirwin has the corn huskers who beat
all records. John James husked 122
bushels In one day; George Palmer had
a record of 120 bushels; Oliver James
came in with 105, and Peter Landis 98
bushels. Only the day before the last
named husked out 115 bushels. This
day's work was all done on the farm of
Henry Atchison.
The Colby Tribune fellow and the
other fellow on the Oakley Graphic are
having a serious tilt In their newspa
pers. The former charges the latter
with having the swelled head, while the
latter returns the charge that he has
attended some other school than that
of the Baptist church. The Tribune
man goes on to say that the Graphic
man is egotistical and doesn't pretend
to trot in the same class with him,
while the Graphic fellow comes back
and says that the fastest gait he ever
saw in the Tribune editor was while
pushing a baby wagon in front of him,
besides, accusing him with wanting to
go to congress. This last charge will
doubtless result In a libel suit.
It is no wonder the farmers who own
land on the famous Paradise flats, in
Rooks county, are making money. In
the last ten days, according to P. D.
Spellman. the poultry buyer at Plain
viile, which is the capital of Paradise
fiats, he has taken In over 20,000 pounds
of turkeys, and about 3.000 pounds of
chickens; besides about 3,000 pounds of
geese, ducks and dressed poultry.
Osborne has a lady who will bet
money. mar'es mi- chalk that she can
lift with one hand 17) pounds from the
floor to the top of the counter. She
would make a good wife for some lazy
fellow.
The Norton county high school has
about 200 scholars enrolled. Six teach
ers are employed.
There is a spot in the little town of
Edmond. way out in Norton county,
named "Quality Hill." Residence prop
erty has been known there to sell as
high as $1,000.
Headaches From Colds.
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE removes
the cause. To get the genuino call for the
full name arrf look for the signature of
E. W. Grove;PC5c.
Attention, Farmers.
Why remain in the north and stay
indoors six months in the year con
suming what you raise during the
other six months?
Go south where you can work out
doors every month in the year, and
where you are producing something
the year round. If you are a stock
raiser you know your stock are now
"eating their heads off and, besides,
have to be protected from the rigors
of winter by expensive shelter.
Economical stock feeding requires
the combination of both flesh forming
and fat forming foods in certain pro
portions. Alabama and Florida pro
duce in abundance the velvet bean
and cassava, the first a flesh producer
and the latter a fat producer, and
they are the cheapest and best fatten
ing materials known to the world.
More money can be made and with
less labor, in general farming, fruit
and berry growing and truck garden
ing along our road in the south than
In any other section of the union.
If you are interested anJ desire
further information on the subject,
address G. A. Park, General Immigra
tion and Industrial Agent, Louisville
& Nashxllle R. R. Co., Louisville. K.
SPORTINGNEWS.
The Present Champions of the
Ring.
From - Bantamweight to the
ilearyweight Class.
SCALE OF WEIGHTS.
James J. Jeffries Remains Un
disputed Champion.
Tommy Kjan Is Claiming Title
of Middleweight Champion.
Bantamweight Jem Bowker,, of Lon
don, England.
Legitimate featherweight Abe Attell,
of San Francisco.
Heavy featherweight, 128 to 180
Jimmy Brut, of Han Francisco.
Lightweight Joe Gans, of Baltimore,
Welterweight oe .Walcott, of Bos
ton.
Middle and light heavyweight Robert
Fitzsimmons, defeated Jim Hall in four
rounds at New Orleans, March 6, 1893.
Claimed by Jack O'Brien and Tommy
Ryan.
Heavweieht James J. Jeffries.
A new bantamweight champion was
made when Jem Bowker won the de
cision over Frankie Neil, of San Fran
cisco, In a SO-round bout in London on
October 17, 1904.
Abe Attell knocked out Harry orbes
in five rounds at St. Louis and later
won from Kid Herman, Young Erne and
Aurelio Herrera. He is the legitimate
featherweight champion today.
Brltt did not win his championship
this year, although he clinched his right
to the title by defeating Battling Nel
son the other night at San Francisco.
He is a 130-pound man and his cham
pionship is at that weight.
Joe Gans must still be considered the
lightweight champion, having won on
a foul from Britt at Frisco on October
21.
At 145 pounds Joe Walcott remains
for the present secure.
None other than old bod h ltzsimmons
can be considered the champion In the
middleweight and light heavyweight
classes, thouerh Tommy Ryan and Jack
O'Brien are both claimants for the title
and the former Is advertising himself
as "middleweight champion" continu
ally. Jeffries remains the undisputed cham
pion of heavyweights.
The scale of weights for the various
pugilistic classes is as follows:
Bantam Under 115 pounds.
Feather 122 pounds.
Light 133 pounds.
Welter 142 pounds.
Middle 158 pounds.
Light heavyweight 175 and under.
Heavy 175 pounds and over.
SURELY OPEN JANUARY 7.
Shannon Says No Contingency Will
Prevent Essex Park Meet.
Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 26. "Racing
will commence in Hot Springs on Sat
urday, January 7." was the announce
ment made to horse owners and train
ers by William Shannon, principal
owner of the Essex Dark property.
The announced allayed much
uneasiness that has existed since the
meeting of dissatisfied turf magnates
a week ago in Chicago, but it is con
strued in various ways. Some think
it means the stewards of the Western
Jockey club have given assurance of
concessions. Others believe it implied
that President Devereaux has yielded
with a good grace. Yet another de
duction is that the Hot Springs Jockey
club has made up its mind to race in
dependent of the Western Jockey club.
In explanation. Shannon says:
"The directors of Essex park make
this announcement because we intend
at all hazards to keep our word to the
many horsemen who have come to our
track with the expectation of racing
sixty days at Hot Springs. We have
not heard from the Western Jockey
club, nor have we withdrawn our pro
test, but racing will begin here on
January 7, which ever way the cat
may jump. We still seek a change
from the December assignment of
dates, but we expect to secure the 21
days Essex park had for Its initial
meeting last February and March. If
we and others can get no satisfaction
from the Western Jockey club, and a
new circuit should be formed. It would
not Interfere with this announcement,
as in any event racing at Hot Springs
will open the first Saturday in Janu
ary." That there is no longer any doubt
about the opening date is evident by
the issuance and distribution of the
programme book. The first day's card
includes the Inaugural handicap, a
mile race for 3-year-olds and upward,
with a guaranteed value of $2,500, and
it is announced the weights will be
made known next Sunday.
Horses continue to arrive, though
the carpenters have great difficulty in
keeping pace with the ever-pressing
demand for stalls. Wednesday O'Neil's
string of thirteen got in, and Thursday
G. C. Baker reached Essex park with
fourteen. Sam Wagner Is expected
from Chicago on any train. He has
asked for fifteen stalls, but his horses
are still at Latonia. At present there
is little chance to get in at Essex park
unless stalls have been reserved, but
new stables, to contain 208 stalls, are
under way.
CORRIGAN" IN FILL CONTROL.
"Master of Hawthorne" Is Yloe Presi
dent of New Orleans Jockey Club.
New Orleans. Dec. 26. Edward Corrigan
is now in undisputed control of the New
Orleans Jockey club. His elevation and
election to the vice presidency Saturday
means more than at first suspected. It
developed that Mr. Corrigan already has
his plans well laid and unless the Western
Jockey club comes to terms and accords
the new southern race course proper dates
he will form a powerful independent cir
cuit, starting fit Kansas Citv, taking in
Hawthorne. St. Louis, New Orleans and
other points. There is no longer any doubt
about this being the programme. It is
probable a new association will be organ
ized in the west, which will have Corri
gan at Its head.
All turf men gathered here for the win
ter are talking of the new Corrigan deal.
Congressman Joseph L. Rhtnock of Cov
ington, Ky., one of the Latonia leaders,
is hand and glove with Corrigan. The
fact came out last hijht that he is now
a very heavy investor in the nw trck
here. It being said that he is In for $50,000
worth of stock.
- TIP O'NEILL
Slated for President of the Western
League.
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. e. Tip
O'Neill, the famous baseball player,
who is now living at Oakland, Cal.,
will probably be elected president of
the Western baseball league. Can
tillon, of Milwaukee, -owner of the
Des Moines team, holds the deciding
vote, and his choice will be the Call-
fomian, who served with such success
as an umpire In the American associa
tion two years ago. The Western
league is divided Into three factions
and each needs Cantillon's help to ac
complish any results. Each faction
has a candidate for president, but
Cantillon will be-given his wish in this
matter, in order to bring him around
to the wishes of the other magnates in
other matters of importance.
AGAINST "VACATION" SPORT.
Michigan Professor Takes Step to Do
Away Wltb Suspicious Vrork.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 26. An at
tempt to raise athletics at the Univer
sity of Michigan above the suspicion
of crooked work was this week made
by Prof. A. H. Pattengill. who has is
sued the following proclamation to
athletes:
"A student shall be Ineligible to rep
resent his college in athletic contests
who engage in such contests as a
representative of any athletic organi
zation not connected with his college.
except by special written permission
previously obtained from the proper
atnietic authorities.
"Occasional games during vacation
on teams which have no permanent or
ganization are not prohibited, provided
written permission has first been se
cured, and provided that such permis
sion be granted for one team only dur
ing any single vacation, and that no
permission will be given to play on a
proressional or semi-professionai team.
"in the administration of this rule it
is expressly understood that a semi
proiessionai team is a team, any one
or more of whose members receives
remuneration for his services. It does
not devolve upon the athletic authori
ties to prove receipt of money by any
member of the team, but common re
ports may be taken as a basis of ac
tion."
TO LINE UP THE TEAM.
Manager Barnes Will Soon Organize
Oklahoma City Bunch.
Oklahoma City, Okla.. Dec. 26.
Manager Barnes of the Oklahoma
City team of the Western baseball as
sociation, has returned from a busi
ness trip to the Indian Territory and
announces that this week he will be
gin to organize his supporters here for
the coming season. Some improve
ments in Sportsman's park, alreadv
one of the finest in the southwest, are
contemplated by Mr. Barnes, and the
seating capacity of the grandstand
may be enlarged. Mr. Barnes will at
tend the meeting of the association to
be held in Kansas City on January 26,
when committees will be appointed to
prepare the schedule and fix the
circuit.
BATTLING NELSON TOLERANT.
Declines to Prosecute Teddy Murphy,
Who Skipped With Money. '
San Francisco, Dec. 26. Battling
Nelson will not prosecute his manager,
Teddy Murphy, who with Eddie San
try was brought from Stockton to this
city by a detective to answer charges
of embezzlement. The check for 19,-
00 found in Murphy's possession was
ashed and the money deposited with
the property clerk of the court. Both
Murphy and Nelson signed a paper
agreeing to this. Santry has been re
leased on his own recognizance and
Murphy will be released on $4,000 bail.
Nelson and Murphy both say that an
amicable settlement can be reached,
and further legal proceedings are not
anticipated.
.. Coursing-.Jleet Begun.
Oklahoma City Okla., Dec. 26.
The coursing meet, under the auspices
of the Oklahoma Coursing association,
in which dogs were entered from Kan
sas, Iowa, Texas and Oklahoma and
Indian Territories, was begun here
Saturday, and today there will be a
consolation event. There were no
finals run Saturday. The runners-up
in the day's event and the time made
in the same are as follows:
Twilight, 0:35, .Painter, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Texas Orell, 0:26, McNew, Shaw
nee, Okla.
Freeslas, 2:05, Howard, Blackwell,
Okla. '
Lady Carmine, 2:05, Bartlett, Win
field, Kas.
Charles C, 1:13, Painter, Okla
homa City, Okla.
Frisco Line, 2:26, Taylor, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Miss Ringling,
1:56, Ozmun,
mi
Reno, Okla.
Desmond, 1:40,
Bonnevell, Black-
well, Okla.
Roguish Eye, 0:29, McFadden,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
May Neversettle, 0:26, Harbour,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Lady Audley, 0:48, William Black
well, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Blackwell Boy, 1:00, Howard, Back
well, Okla.
Pathfinder, 2:00, McFadden, Okla
homa City. Okla.
Pretty Peggy, 0:50, Bartlett, Win
field, Kas.
Stuttgart Girl, 2:05, Harbour, Okla
homa City.
Troublesome, 0:35, Ravencroft,
Floral, Kas.
GOLD FROM KANSAS.
State Is Credited With Production of
89,700 Last Year.
Washington. Dec. 26. Kansas, in 190S,
for the first time joined the ranks of gold
producing states. Along with her came
Tennessee. The two states came In with
gold products valued at $9,700 for Kansas:
$XI for Tennessee. Kansas also reported
silver for the first time, giving a produc
tion of no less than 87,000 ounces.
Some interesting facts and figures on
the total production of gold and silver in
this country in the year 1908 are given in
a report published by the United States
geographical survey in its annual volume
of mineral resources. The total statistics
of the production are furnished, as usual,
by George E. Roberts, director of the
mint. The volume may be bad upon ap
plication to the United States geograph
ical survey.
The total silver yield of the United
States for 1903 amounted to 54,300,000 fine
ounces. This had a coinage value of $70,
206.060 and a commercial value of $29,322,
000, a decrease in quantity of 1,200,000 fine
ounces, or 2.16 per cent.
Besides Nevada and Kansas, the follow
ing states and territories also showed
gains In production in 1903 over 1902:
Idaho, 652,000 ounces; Utah, 365,100
ounces: Arizona,. 344.000 ounces: Alaska,
61,600 ounces; California, 20, 700 ounces;
Oregon, 24,700 ounces; Texas. 8,200 ounces:
Virginia. 3,600 ounces; Tennessee, 700
ounces.
The greatest decrease in the production
of silver in 1903 was in Colorado. It
amounted to 2,6S5,800 fine ounces. Alaba
ma, which reported 100 fine ounces of sil
ver In 1902, reported no production in 1903.
Other decreases were as follows:
Montana, 601.500 ounces; Washington,
324, 509 ounces; New Mexico, 276,500 ounces;
South Dakota, 119.000 ounces; Michigan,
6O.S00 ounces: North Carolina, 9,900 ounces;
Wyoming, 4,800 ounces.
Gets Wrong Kind of Seed.
Waukesha, Wis., Dec. 26. A pecu
liar lawsuit is to be heard in the cir
cuit court, having been sent here on a
change of venue from Walworth
county. The plaintiff, named Gould,
owns a 160-acre farm near Whitewater
and claims he ordered dwarf Essex
rape seed from the defendant, but "the
latter delivered to him bird rase seed,
a noxious weed, which, when sown,
damaged his farm. Gould asks $500
damages and costs.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Senator Long Wants Inaugural
Adrlces from Kansas. ,
The Murdocks Create a Stir on
the Potomac.
Washington, Dec. 26. It behooves
any Kansas organizations, bands,
marching clubs, etc., which expect to
participate In the inaugural parade
when President Roosevelt Is inducted
into office on March 4 next, to advise
Senator Long or members of the Kan
sas house delegation in the near fu
ture of their desire to participate; to
give their strength, and the time
when they will likely arrive in Wash
ington. The committee on arrangements has
notified Senator Long and house mem
bers of its desire to have these data at
the earliest possible date, in order that
It may perfect its arrangements.
This committee also has to do with
the allotment of position in the in
augural parade.
It has occurred to Senator Long that
possibly Marshall's band, or some
marching club, or other organization,
may have a desire to participate, and
the information above suggested
should be conveyed to members of the
Kansas delegation in the very near
future.
Victor Murdock is entertaining vari
ous members of his family here during
holiday time, and he conveyed today
to a friend the Information that they
were leading him a merry life. His
secretary, David Leahy, went further
and stated that the visiting Murdocks
were verily "outdoing" Victor.
the visitors are: Colonel M. M.
Murdock, editor of the Wichita Eagle,
and Mrs. Murdock. the parents of
Victor Murdock; and Thomas Benton
Murdock of El Dorado, uncle of the
Seventh district representative. They
came here simply to make it pleasant
lor tneir "boy during his holidays.
and incidentally to do a little sight
seeing.
After resting un a dav or so. Colonel
Murdock and "Bent" set out for a
stroll down the avenue, and to stretch
their leggs. One of the first things
they saw was a street peddler, of the
genus that frequents the avenue at
every corner during these Yuletide
times, and who had an array of wares
spread out for inspection and sale.
The man had an acrobatic grasshop
per, which he explained was "a real
Kansas grasshopper.' The Kansas
warrior-editors had cast but the most
cursory glance at the wares un until
their quick ears heard the statement
that it was a Kansas errasshonner.
'then they both stopped. The Wichita
colonel waved his stick excitedly, and
his brother from El Dorado raised bin
voice to a high pitch, the while thev
eicraimea to tne man about like this:
wen nave you to understand, sir.
that there is no such thiner anv more
In Kansas as a graashODDer: the rpnn
ia extinct; it ions nas been extinct.
And no more of your foolishness e-oes.
so Ions as we are around here."
ine irlgntened vender tried to pt-
plain, but the Murdocks kept on talk
ing to him, until their wrath fadefl
and they walked away. But those who
pass tne way of the fakir since, de
clare that his assertions concerning
the nativity of the hopper are not re
stricted to any particular community
since the warrior-journalists visited his
corner.
The other night, the Murdocks
young and old, statesmen and editors
were aining at Victor's hotel.. Colonel
Bent" thought to do the judicious
"""K. as tne leave-taking approached.
He extracted a silver quarter dollar
from his pockets, and placed it on the
corner of the table for the waiter. The
waiter appearea not to notice. Then
said Colonel "Bent," in a voice pitched
hight, "I guess you don't want this;
I'll just keep it." "And," said Victor
today, as he told the story, "you
ought to have seen that negro waiter
make for the money. It was a com
bination slide and jump; I never saw
anything, like it. But he got the quar
ter." There Is still another story, and it Is
on "Bent," like the last preceding one.
Victor introduced his uncle to one of
the swellest. wealthiest residents of
the hotel one evening a New Eng
land woman. "Bent" chatted with her
pleasantly, for a time, and then in
quired what state she was from.
"Connecticut," said the woman.
"What! That infernal God-forsaken
state?" cried the man from El
Dorado. "That is one of the most
impossible states of the union. You
ought to come from a decent state,
like I do!"
It is asserted by those who know,
that the entire atmosphere of the
Hotel Cochran has been changed since
the advent of the Kansans. Bell boys
stand in fear and trembling as the
visitors approach. Elevator boys slide
past all floors, no matter who is wait
ing, when they hear the Murdock
ring, or have them on board. Waiters
are obsequious. The guests of the
hotel are deferential. Clerks are most
genial. The atmosphere has changed,
since Colonels "Marsh" and "Bent"
Murdock came to town.
The consolidation of the four Kan
sas land-districts into three will be
made on Februrary 15, 1905. This
has been agreed upon by the secretary
of the interior. The order is now being
printed and copies of it will be sent
to the Kansas land offices in the near
future.
HORRORSJJF WAR.
The Port Arthur Siege Outranks All
Former Records.
A correspondent writes graphically
of the dreadful scenes in connection
with the siege of Port Arthur:
Few, indeed, have read Tolstoi's
reminiscences of the siege of Sevas
topol, or Perez Galdos' hardly less
vivid pages describing the vicissitudes
which the inhabitants of beleaguered
Saragossa suffered during the Napo
leonic wars, without uttering a fer
vent thanksgiving that such butchery
and slaughter was "quite Impossible in
the more humane age in which we
live. It has remained for the blockade
by land and sea of Port Arthur In the
last ten months to show that our self
congratulation was without any foun
dation in fact and that the fighting
brute of today, when his lower in
stincts are aroused, does not rise above
the low level of the last century or,
for that matter, the warlike practices
of the Middle ages.
Lifting up the corners of the cur
tains which shield this dismal butch
ery and paying but slight attention to
the official bulletins issued by the an
tagonists which are originally inspired
in a desire to mislead and to deceive,
we can ascertain beyond the perad
venture of a doubt that there has
never been greater slaughter in pro
portion to the numbers engaged than
IT'S NO GUESSWORK!
When you smoke the above cigar you get C rgntc
all that is coming to you for " uuutu
GEO. BURG HART, Maker.
that of which the gray ashen cliffs
about Port Arthur have been the
scene.
We know of battalions that have
been blown to eternity by the electric
mines and proud battleships with a
complement of a thousand men which
have disappeared beneath the waters
with but three or four miraculously
favored survivors. We know that the
devoted garrison of the beleaguered
forts has shrunk from about forty to
four thousand, and that thousands
upon thousands of maimed Russians,
torn, mangled and tortured out of the
semblance of human beings, are dying
in the drains and the cellars of the
fortress, suffering the tortures of the
damned without the alleviation of
anaesthetics. We know that the Japa
nese army under Nogi still numbers
one hundred thousand men, thanks to
the Japanese system of always keeping
the besieging force up to that strength,
but the Japanese war omce aamns
fiftv thousand casualties in the be
sieging army, and those in a position
to judge, and with no apparent reason
for concealment or exaggeration, place
the losses at a much higher figure.
Time and again the Russians have
nronosed a truce to give burial par
ties an opportunity to save from the
vultures these gallant blood stained
remains, and time and again mis oner
has not been availed of. The decom
noslner remains of those who have
fallen In the previous assaults are left
there to serve a hideous purpose.
Rie-htlv or wrongly, it has been sur
mised 'that the want of respect and
consideration for his dead which Gen
eral Nogi has apparently shown is in
spired by the thought that the dead
may yet add to the overflowing meas
ure of their devotion while living.
Perhaps it is hoped that tneir aecom
posing remains may taint the scant
remaining water sources or tne De
sieged and send the specter of pesti
lence stalking through their already
shattered ranks.
ONLY 20 ESCAPED.
Russian Garrison of Two Forts Almost
.Annihilated.
Headquarters of the Japanese Third
Army, Before Port Arthur, Dec. 20, by
way of Ylnkow (delayed In transmis
sion), by way of Tientsin, Dec. 24.
After the general assault of November
26-27 against the forts on Rihlung and
Keekwan mountains, resulting in
furious fighting and great loss of life,
the Japanese had been engaged in
tunneling under the north fort of
Keekwan mountain. Two main tun
nels ran under the north wall of the
fort from the moat, a distance of
forty feet, and there were four short
branch tunnels. The morning of De
cember 18 seven dynamite mines were
laid, the object of which was to de
stroy the north wall and give the Jap
anese access to the fort.
The explosion made two large
breaches in the north wall of the fort,
through which the Japanese in the
moat swarmed. They charged so
quickly that sixty of them were killed
by the falling debris. The Japanese
succeeded in gaining the ramparts
and charged the interior of the fort,
but they were repulsed by a portion of
the garrison from behind a wall at the
rear of the fort which had not been
touched by the force of the explosion.
Behind this wall there were four field
guns and three machine guns. In the
meantime the Russians had rushed
about 300 reinforcements to the fort
through the covered wall at the rear.
The second battalion of attackers
were unable to advance immediately
as the sapping trenches from the
parallel to the moat were filled with
debris. When this debris had been ex
cavated, the battalion gained the moat
and reached the ramparts through the
breaches that had been made by the
explosions.
The commander of this enternrise re
alized that any attempt to gain the In
terior ot tne tort would end in disaster
If his whole force advanced In one body,
so he disposed his men along the wall
ana oraerea tnem to gain the lower
level of the Interior of the fort bv twos
and threes and to find cover in the
holes which had been made in the sur
face by the Japanese shells. In the
whole center of the fort great holes had
been torn by the Japanese shells and
these offered good cover from the rifle
and machine gun fire directed from the
rear of the fort. In these holes one
hundred and fifty of the attackers had
found cover by 6 o'clock in the even
ing. Advancing carefully the Japanese
approached the Russian defenses in the
rear of the fort and by working from
hole to hole under cover of the dark
ness, the entire battalion gained the in
terior of the fort notwithstanding the
desperate resistance by the Russians.
The first charge made against the
wall of sandbags was unsuccessful, but
charge followed charge until midnight
when the last corner of the Russian de
fenses was captured.
The fighting was desperate In the ex
treme with bayonets and dynamite
hand grenades, and the entire garrison
was killed with the exception of a party
of twenty who escaped through the
covered wall, which they destroyed be
hind them by exploding four mines and
thus prevented the Japanese from pur
suing them. When the final death
struggle came, the Japanese and the
surviving Russians closed in and
fought with bayonets, hand grenades
and even pieces of concrete. The men
were wedged into the passageways. The
Russians refused to run and the Jap
anese would not retire. They simply
closed with each other and fought until
the Russians, with the exception of the
last twenty, had been killed.
WILL BE A COUNTESS.
Marriage of Daisy Lelter Takes Place
nt Noon Today.
"Washington. Dec. 26. Miss Daisy Leiter
will become the Countess of Suffolk and
Berkshire today at noon. All of those
bidden to the wedding have arrived in
the city except Lionel Guest, but he may
be here in time for the ceremony, which
is to take place at the Leiter mansion,
Dupont circle, the celebration to be by -the
Rev. Dr. Roland Cotton 8mith, rector of
St. Joseph's church. As the arrangements
now are, the omy other persons to be
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It is expected that Major Campbell and
Mrs. Campbell, the Karl of Suffolk and
the Countess of Suffolk and all of the vis
itors will sail Wednesday from New York
for England and that Mrs. Lelter and Jo
seph Leiter will go to Chicago In a day
or two after that for the rest of the win
ter, at least.
XO TREE AT WHITE IIOUSCL
Christmas AVas Celebrated as a Fam
ily Holiday.
Washington, Dec 26. At the White
House Christmas ws-s celebrated as a
family holiday. The president remained in
the house during most of the dav. In the
afternoon in company with tho two older
boys and a friend he went out for a walk.
The dinner was limited to the members
of the family and R. H. Ferguson, an in
timate friend from New York, who is a
guest at the White House. The members
of the president's family exchanged gifts,
but there was no Christmas tree. In place
of this the children enjoyed the delights,
of the Christmas tree at the house of Mrs.
W. S. Cowles. the president's sister, the
festivities taking place Saturday night
At the home of Vice President-elect and
Mrs. Fairbanks three of their four sons
Joined the family party for the Christ
rnastide, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Fairbanks
of Chicago being detained in that city.
All the cabinet officers, with the excep
tion of Secretary Metcalf of the depart-
ment of commerce and labor,- are passing
the holiday season at their Washington
homes. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are at An
napolis with their son. Midshipman Vic
tor N. Metcalf.
, THEY DIDN'T MEET.
Addlcks Makes a Flying Trip to Law.
. son's Town.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 88. Mr. Addlcks
came to Boston and secured quarters at
the home of a friend in Newton. He dis
cussed his errand with Dunbar, Racke
mann Sc. Brewstor, Court street attorneys,
in certain Bay State Gas suits. They were
in consultation for hours. After dinner
at Young's hotel with Jurtge Dunbar, Mr
Addlcks started for New York on an early
afternoon train. He did n.)t come to
Boston to see Mr. Lawson and Jid not s
him.
"There is no reason why I should sea
Mr. Lawson," stated Mr. Addlcks "I
came to Boston solely on a business trlD
nothing more." v'
"I am sorry that Mr. Addick's stav
was of such short duration," said Mr
Lawson. "Nothing would have pleased
me more than to meet him face to AT
Many things there are on which I S
like to enlighten Mr. Addlcks. Yes irT
deed, it is too bad that he found New
York Interests so Imperative." w